Johann Friedrich Westrumb

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Johann Friedrich Westrumb (born December 2, 1751 in Nörten near Göttingen, † December 31, 1819 in Hameln ) was a German pharmacist.

Life

His father was a senior surgeon in the Kurhannovchen Dragoon Regiment Estorf . After the early death of his mother, a born dumbbell man, he was brought up and taught by her brother, the pastor in Dannenberg . He showed an inclination for pharmacy early on, and his father sent him to an apprenticeship at the court pharmacy in Hanover near Brande. He also found support from Klaproth (who was an assistant at the court pharmacy from 1766) and the botanist Erhardt († 1795), whom he regarded as his only friend. After his apprenticeship, he spent several years as a pharmacist's assistant, including in Frankfurt (Oder) , until he took over the management of his teacher's pharmacy.

After he had proven himself here, the government leased him from October 1, 1779 for life the sizeable Raths-Apotheke in Hameln, founded in 1611 , which at that time was still in the middle part of the wedding house.

From his marriage, which he entered into in 1780, had eight children. One of his sons, August Heinrich Ludwig Westrumb (* 1798) became court medicus and country physician in the Loccum monastery court in 1837 and medical advisor in Wunstorf in 1843 (works: De phaenomenis, quae ad vias sic dictas lotii clandestinas demonstrandas referuntur ; Göttingen, 1819; De helminthibus acanthocephalis , Hannover , 1824; On the suction force of the veins , 1825).

In Hameln he was elected senator. On May 3, 1790, with the help of the Ratsschultheißen Lüder and the pastors Gumbrecht and Evers, he initiated the establishment of a new girls' school , which, however, had to close again in 1812 due to the economic hardship.

The government of Hanover, which frequently used him for investigations and commissions, had appointed him mining commissioner before 1795.

He also dealt with questions of chemistry, was editor of the journal for pharmacy and produced numerous publications in Crelle's Annalen and Trommsdorf's Journal.

He improved the mineral water analysis methods of Joseph Priestley and Tobern Olof Bergmann and examined the wells in Pyrmont, Meinberg, Verden, Rehburg and Eilsen. He also analyzed the brine from Lüneburg and Pyrmont. In the Lüneburg fossil he discovered boraxic acid, which was later called boracite .

Around 1803 (fourteen years after Luigi Galvani had observed the electrical effect on frogs' legs), Friedrich Heinrich Basse was his assistant, who healed the patients with galvanic experiments and during this time discovered the electrical conductivity of the ground. Further students were Johann August Carl Sievers , Schröder (later in Hanover), Heukenkamp (in Magdeburg) and Backhauß (in Lüneburg). He taught how to make baking soda from table salt using various methods. He also introduced the production of good glasses with the help of table salt and Glauber's salt in factories. In old age he developed an aversion to the anti-inflammatory system.

His successor in the Raths-Apotheke was Friedrich Wilhelm Sertürner , whose son Viktor moved to the current location in 1864.

Honors

In 1788 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1793 a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Small physico-chemical treatises ; 6 volumes, 1785–1800
  • History of the newly discovered metallization of simple types of earth ; 1791
  • Comments and suggestions for brandy burners ; 1793, 3rd edition 1803
  • Handbook for the first beginner in the apothecary art . - Hanover: Hahn, 1795. Volumes 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Handbook of Apothecary Art ; 1795-98
  • Comments and suggestions for bleachers ; 1800
  • Small fonts with physical-chemical-technical content ; 1805
  • Description of the Gesundbrunnen and the sulfur baths at Eilsen in the county of Schaumburg: with copper . Helwing, Hanover 1805. ( digitized version )
  • Description of a very advantageous vinegar factory ; 1818
  • Malt kiln ; 1818
  • About Glass Making ; 1818
  • About that bleaching with acids ; 1819
  • Comments and suggestions for fruit brandy burners ; 1821
  • About the refinement of the common corn brandy ; 1821

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Oppenheimer:  Westrumb, Johann Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 231.
  2. ^ Yearbook of Chemistry and Physics ; Volume 28; P. 1; By Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger, Franz Wilhelm Schweigger-Seidel
  3. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Westrumb
  4. ↑ http://www.vikilu.de/vikilu/index.php?id=59
  5. ↑ http://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!455548!0
  6. ↑ http://www.dewezet.de/portal/lokales/dossiers/historie_Der-Galvanismus-hat-sie-ganz-geheilt-_arid,204997.html
  7. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 256.
  8. ↑ List of members Leopoldina, Johann Friedrich Westrumb (with picture)

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personal data
SURNAME Westrumb, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Nörten
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1819
Place of death Hamelin